I haven’t been in a coma since 2013 … I’m just too happy and lazy to build a new blog, so I’m going to cannibalise this old one for parts.

This trip is different to the one below because I am sans children. Which means a reoccuring theme will be roof top bars and church mosaics. Two things that are tricky with a small entourage.

I am currently in beautiful Istanbul. So much more perfect than the last time I was here a couple of years ago when it was scary, aggressive and unsafe, but fabulous. There is no aggression at all now. But I am in a very different part of town and I am with a Turkish friend. Both important factors.